Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
“At no point does the article (“None injured in crash,” March 14) explain the car in front of me slammed on the breaks [sic] just before reaching an icy patch and lost control. In an attempt to avoid a severe crash, I slowed and applied the breaks [sic] gently to try to avoid also loosing [sic] control. Fortunately I was able to avoid the car in front of me, which I believe saved the two cars behind me from also being involved in the accident. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to avoid the oncoming individual.
“Luckily no one was injured. In this case had the individual in front of me, not unnecessarily slammed on the breaks [sic], all accidents would have been avoided. It would have been great to get a statement from them on why they had done so, but they left the accident scene before statements were taken . . . I also want to mention the citation received specifically states the offense did not contribute to the crash.”
Jeremy Trostad
Carrington, N.D.
Editor’s Note: The information regarding the facts of the crash as published in the March 14 article, “None injured in crash,” were provided by Captain Bryan Niewind of the North Dakota Highway Patrol (NDHP). This was after the reporter made two separate requests to the Foster County Sheriff’s Office for the official crash report. He was then referred to the NDHP. We appreciate Captain Bryan Niewind for providing the details he did; however, he did not include any of the above information stated by Mr. Trostad in his email to us.
We are publishing Mr. Trostad’s statements here because the reporter obtained comments from the other driver, Nathan Beals, which were used in the article. The reporter knows Beals, so he reached out to him after he heard about the crash shortly afterwards. Witnesses to the crash traveling south from New Rockford behind Trostad said they waited more than an hour that Friday afternoon to make statements to the NDHP.
